A Forest Lake man was charged with domestic assault by strangulation after allegedly grabbing someone he lived with around the neck during a fight.
According to court records, police arrived at the home of David Allen Petsch Dinham, 51, in the 700 block of Woodland Drive Southeast, on Oct. 16. A woman who was living in the home with Dinham had called 911 to report that Dinham had grabbed her by the neck and squeezed during an argument. She allegedly believed Dinham was under the influence and said she couldn’t breathe during the incident and thought she was going to die.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Police allegedly found red marks on the woman’s neck and scratch marks on Dinham’s arms, indicating, they believed, that the woman had scratched him in an attempt to get him to let go of her throat. Dinham denied that he grabbed her neck, at which point the woman allegedly loudly confronted
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